As a 8 year old child, Rick Rhoden went on a slip and slide and impaled himself on a pair of rusty scissors. He then developed symptoms of polio. He used a cane to walk with until the age of 12. He underwent an operation to remove part of his left knee so that it would not outgrow his right one.

After ending his baseball career, pitcher Rhoden went on to win multiple celebrity golf tournaments, earning over a million dollars.